Week Inwards Review - July 25, 2015: Google Photos, Youtube App In Addition To Google Maps Timeline

This calendar week Google+ announced that Google+ Photos volition hold upwards retired on July 29th. Easing the transition a bit, the Android Google Photos app was updated alongside ameliorate album administration options. On the desktop you lot tin honour your photos inwards Google Photos together with Picasa Web Albums.

Google Maps also got a non bad novel Timeline characteristic that lets you lot rediscover your travels together with photos.  And the YouTube Android app was updated alongside novel features together with navigation.

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Google+

• Google+ together with your business: the Google Apps learning middle has tips for using this "social network designed for businesses"

Photos

• Goodbye Google+ Photos! Hello Google Photos!  (Google+)
• Bradley Horowitz: Extremely excited virtually Google Photos (Bradley Horowitz)
  Folks, nosotros are indeed reading these comments.  Google Photos isfoundational - pregnant we're far from done, together with definitely volition hold upwards growing together with evolving the product.  It is a major surface area of investment for us, together with we're solidly behind it.
• Google Photos atomic number 82 Anil Sabharwal provides some context but about the retirement of Google+ Photos (Anil Sabharwal)
• Google Photos Android app update: photograph descriptions, ameliorate album administration options, direct all photos on a 24-hour interval alongside a unmarried tap (Google Photos)
• Google Photos to Google+: lensman Trey Ratcliff demonstrates how he uploads to Google Photos together with shares to Google+ (Trey Ratcliff)
• The novel Google Maps Timeline non solely lets you lot rediscover your go routes - it also helps you lot rediscover your photos from that day! 
• Google Photos volition allow you lot #paywithaphoto for tasty treats if you lot are inwards NYC, LA, Austin, or Portland
• OK Google: Find "photo spots nearby" alongside Google Now (Google)
• High character photos together with videos alongside inexpensive CCTV photographic telly camera lenses (Instructables)

Local Business

• Google volition take unverified Local Business pages outset July 28 (Mike Blumenthal)
• Local draw of piece of employment organisation owners: continue upwards alongside changes together with updates to local search alongside Nick Rink's weekly Smart Local Roundup

YouTube together with Video Creators

• Redesigned YouTube Android app: subscriptions front end together with center, your fans tin easily subscribe to notifications of your novel uploads together with alive broadcasts, built-in editing tools together with more
• Facebook launching novel features together with controls for video creators, alongside an emphasis on tools for Pages
• Your Timeline: Revisit the places you've explored (Google Maps)
• Google Maps for Android lets you lot add together custom names to locations (Ars Technica)
• Google Maps navigator sounds to a greater extent than similar mom all the time!

Google Voice & Project Fi

• Improved voicemail transcription for Google Voice together with Project Fi (Google Official Blog)

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